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(\"Also Sprach Zarathustra,
Op. 30\" by Richard Strauss)(Crowd chanting)

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(Inaudible shouting)

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(Inaudible shouting)

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(Chanting)

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ALL: National Front!
We\'re National Front!

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BOY: We\'re all National Front.

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REPORTER:
You\'re all National Front, why?

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Because they\'re not English!

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They don\'t belong here!

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(Tense music)

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Our campaign is
a cultural campaign

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so, therefore,
if we\'re against racism,

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we\'re a cultural organisation,

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we\'re against racism in
all facets of British life.

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We\'re not just interested
in the fight

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against the National Front,
we\'re interested in the fight

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against racism
in British society.

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The all \'round
family British racism,
you know what I mean?

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(\"London Calling\"
by The Clash plays)

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MAN:
Do you want this country
to become occupied

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by a load of khaki-coloured,
multiracial bastards?

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♪ London calling
to the faraway towns ♪

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♪ Now war is declared
and battle come down ♪

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♪ London calling
to the underworld ♪

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♪ Come out of the cupboard,
you boys and girls ♪

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♪ London calling,
now don\'t look to us ♪

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♪ Phoney Beatlemania
has bitten the dust ♪

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♪ London calling, see,
we ain\'t got no swing ♪

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♪ Except for the ring
of that truncheon thing ♪

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♪ The ice age is coming,
the sun\'s zooming in ♪

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♪ Meltdown expected,
the wheat is growing thin ♪

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♪ Engines stop running
but I have no fear ♪

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♪ \'Cause London is drowning
and I live by the river ♪

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♪ London calling
to the imitation zone ♪

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♪ Forget it, brother... ♪

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(Tense music)

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I was involved,
as I always had been

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since I first became
culturally active on the left

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or an artist on the left,
running a studio.

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My studio was in Soho
in the West End.

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We had an Agitprop theatre
group called The Kartoon Klowns.

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(Machines whirring)

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WOMAN:
Our information now

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is that there is a strange
phenomena on Planet Earth.

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A ruling class
which is corrupt.

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RED:
In evenings,
we\'d rehearse at my studio.

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In the day,
I\'d be a working photographer.

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I was asked by \"NME,\"
would you come down

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and photograph the punk nights?

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(Punk music)

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Here I am down
the ICA AND Suddenly,

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The Clash come on and bang!

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(Energetic punk music)

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15 minutes of unbelievable
energy and power and volume

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and lyrics about unemployment
and youth alienation

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and, like, Jesus Christ!

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And then they were gone,
they were off.

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(Tense music)

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The economic situation
was really bad.

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The IMF had moved in,
they were putting pressure

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on wage cuts
and social services cuts.

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The whole atmosphere was
really dark and hard.

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The right wing press
playing the same old tune.

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\"We\'re gonna be swamped,
we\'re gonna be mobbed.\"

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To where would you repatriate

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those immigrants
who were born here?

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To where they wanted to go.

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In most cases,
they are the citizens

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of their countries of origin,
although born in this country.

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Their person would be
physically seized and deported

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like a person being

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taken on board
Her Majesty\'s ships of war

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at the end
of the 18th century.

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INTERVIEWER:
So where would you
draw the line, Mr. Powell?

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I draw it short of that.

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(Tense music)

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RED:
The National Front
were growing incredibly.

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Webster was a clever organiser.

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He started to march
in the right places,

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make the right noises.

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They were,
as they said,

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kicking their way
onto the headlines.

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Keep our country
free from invasion

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when the invaders have got
black, brown and yellow faces!

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(Crowd cheering)

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I was talking
to Red in the pub.

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We was both really concerned

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about the rise
of the National Front.

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Especially around my area
in Walthamstow.

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(Marching band music)

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They was using
the usual scapegoats.

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Asians, blacks, whatever.

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And so we said,
what we need to do is do a gig.

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A thing called
\"Rock Against Racism.\"

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(Crowd cheering)

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Also, Bowie was coming out

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with a load of crap
as well at the time.

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And then Clapton came out

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with all that racist shit
in Birmingham.

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(Tense music)

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RED:
We all know of Eric Clapton

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as the great blues guitarist,
the god hero of blues guitar.

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Blues that came out of slavery
(laughs)

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and here he is supporting
the man, Enoch Powell,

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who\'s the greatest supporter

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of white supremacy
in Britain at that time.

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At first, we just
didn\'t believe it.

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(Typewriter clacking)

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I was so angry about it,

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I just went, \"We\'ve got to
do something about this.\"

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I have the answer!

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RED: \"When we read

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\"about Eric Clapton\'s
Birmingham concert

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\"where he urged support for
Enoch Powell, we nearly puked.

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\"Come on, Eric, you\'re rock
music\'s biggest colonialist.

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\"We want to organise
a rank and file movement

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\"against the racist poison
in music.

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\"We urge support
for Rock Against Racism.

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\"PS, who shot the sheriff, Eric?

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\"It sure as hell
wasn\'t you, mate.\"

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I just went, I\'ve got to send
it to all the music press.

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About two weeks later,
it was published.

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(Tense music)

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I saw Red\'s letter
in the \"NME.\"

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I wrote back to Red quite
quickly and he wrote back to me

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and invited me along
to a meeting.

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(Gate creaking)
One rainy night,

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I went over
to the East End

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and the people in the room
were artists

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and writers
and political activists.

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It was immediate,
I thought this is a gang
I\'d like to join.

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(Upbeat punk music)

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I was going into the print
shop fairly regularly.

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There was Syd and Ruth,
so they naturally gravitated

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and the energy and
the excitement of it

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and the potential of it

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was what pulled
all these people on board.

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♪ And you know
you\'ve got to get it ♪

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Syd, he\'d been
a documentary-style

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photographer in Australia,

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so it was quite natural,
when he came here to London,

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that he would have
his camera with him.

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♪ But you don\'t care less
as long as you get it ♪

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Ruth really knew
what she was doing.

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She had the graphic sensibility
and power

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that synced right in
to the punk explosion.

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♪ So greedy ♪

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This photograph comes
out of \"i-D Magazine\"

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and I have whited it out,

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I think, using Tipp-Ex probably.
(laughs)

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♪ The car that pleases you
is the one with full throttle ♪

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♪ Never had no regrets... ♪

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RED: This is the very
first fanzine we ever did.

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I\'d had the idea
of \"Temporary Hoarding\"
because it said it so well.

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It was like a street hoarding,
like a rough thing
in the street.

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And then,
purely by accident,

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the word RAR happened to be
in temporary, which is great.

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It was very much a kind of cut
and paste kind of approach.

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I found this quote
from Rod Stewart.

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I really liked Rod Stewart.

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He says, \"I think Enoch Powell
is the man, I\'m all for him.

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\"This country is overcrowded.

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\"The immigrants should
be sent home, that\'s it.\"

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This is the man who just moved
to Los Angeles, you know?

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I mean,
the man\'s full of shit.

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And I got rid
of all his albums

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and I haven\'t listened to him
since, which is a great shame.

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♪ You can\'t afford... ♪

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We were interested
in the idea

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of people being able
to express themselves

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and that the expression
itself was a political act.

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Dr. David Widgery,

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who was one of our great
supporters in the early days,

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he wrote these words.

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It\'s like a little
mini one paragraph manifesto.

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\"We want rebel music,
street music,

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\"music that breaks down
people\'s fear of one another.

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\"Crisis music, now music,

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\"music that knows
who the real enemy is.

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\"Love music,
hate racism.\"

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♪ So greedy. ♪

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RUTH:
It was a scary moment

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\'cause punk could have gone
either way.

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Some of the bands
did have NF following.

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(Tense music)

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RED: The NF was selling
their newspapers

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outside kids\' schools,
they were recruiting
on the streets.

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Most fights which
happen in school

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are caused by racism,
right?

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It\'s not just by jealousy
or hate

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or something which
cropped up between them.

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It\'s mostly racism.

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I just think the National
Front wants someone to blame...

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GIRL:
Someone to pick on.

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...for what\'s happening
to the country at the moment.

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(Tense music)

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RED:
The whole point of RAR,

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we\'re trying to put
some bit of doubt.

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Are you really NF?

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Are you really someone
who wants no future?

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This isn\'t martial music,

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the roots of this are ska,
they\'re black music.

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I went down to this club
in Peckham.

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I was the only white person
in the whole place

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and everyone was going,
\"Who\'s this fucking bloke?\"

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I met this man,
Red Saunders,

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and he was like talking sense,
you know?

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He was like,
\"We\'ve gotta get together.

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\"We\'ve got to build something
that we\'re all proud of.

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\"We\'ve got to try and
stamp out this ugly demon

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\"that\'s coming
into our community

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\"and the only way to do it
is to bring people together.\"

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WOMAN:
You don\'t mind
the white kids coming along?

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No, well,
that is the ideas here.

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Reggae is for everyone,
you know?

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It\'s not just for black people,
it\'s for white people,

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it\'s for yellow people,
green people. It\'s for people,
you know?

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(Upbeat punk music)

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There was this incredible
cultural explosion going on.

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Which were really lucky
for us in RAR

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because we were fans
of all this.

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We stepped on the trains,

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like there\'s a railway station,
the train pulls in,

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the doors open,
the punks get on

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and all the reggae bands
get on and bang!

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♪ C-C-C-C-C-C-come on,
take a bite of the bait ♪

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♪ You can\'t afford
to hesitate ♪

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RED:
This is the first RAR gig

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with Matumbi,
Dennis Bovell.

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(Tense music)

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(Upbeat punk music)

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That was a hell of a line-up
that night.

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There was a brilliant
punk band called 999.

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♪ That\'s what you like ♪

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♪ You like the way I do it ♪

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To me, they have
the energy of The Clash

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and the outrageousness
of the Sex Pistols.

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The Royal College authorities
went bonkers

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\'cause people were hanging

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off the rafters
and the balconies.

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999 came with white,
working class punks.

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(Excited groaning)

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(Laughing)

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Always have black and white
bands together

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to break down the fear,

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\'cause the NF is trading
on nothing but fear.

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♪ Obsessed ♪

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RED:
That\'s why it was
so important for RAR

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to have its own political
voice with its own fanzine.

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So \"Temporary Hoarding\"
was able

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to go a bit further
than just anti-racism.

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(Tense music)

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(Footsteps thudding)

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And I claim that in the ranks
of our Blackshirt legions

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march the mighty ghosts
of England\'s past!

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(Crowd cheering)

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In this country,
in 15 or 20 years time,

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the black man will have

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the whip hand over
the white man.

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(Voice echoing)

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Britain,
mother of the Empire,

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has had to welcome
in her children

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and to allow them to settle.

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They have not been allowed
to settle in a dignified manner.

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And, because the blacks
have refused

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to accept indignity and
victimage, Britain is stuck

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with the rebellious black
presence in its centres.

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We challenged ideas of Empire,

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the subjugation of people
all over the world,

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partitioning India,
the attitudes of the British

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as a dominant force,
a superior race.

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RED:
My dad worked
for the Crown Agents

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of the old British Empire.

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I was brought up as a kid
in West Africa in Nigeria.

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I remember the extraordinary
nature of white supremacy

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(Brass band music)
with the European clubs.

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I mean, there was a sort
of unofficial apartheid

00:17:42.500 --> 00:17:44.458
running through
the entire system.

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My Dad had reported
the Prague Spring in 1968,

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when a lot of writers
and artists

00:17:51.542 --> 00:17:53.208
had tried to take
on the Soviets.

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(Shouting in foreign language)

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And my mum, for instance,
had come from America,

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had been involved in
the civil rights movement.

00:18:01.417 --> 00:18:03.750
(Tense music)

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We emigrated
to Australia in 1960.

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Some of that time I spent on
an island called Palm Island.

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It was a situation
of complete apartheid.

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We didn\'t go to school
with the Aboriginal children.

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They had their own school.

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On my mother\'s side
of the family,

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my grandmother
was a Suffragette

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so I have at least
two generations behind me

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of activism.

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♪ La la la la ♪

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♪ We\'re gonna send
the blacks back ♪

00:18:46.458 --> 00:18:48.375
♪ We\'re gonna send
the blacks back ♪

00:18:48.375 --> 00:18:50.333
♪ La la la la,
la la la la ♪

00:18:50.333 --> 00:18:54.000
♪ We\'re gonna send
the blacks back ♪

00:18:54.000 --> 00:18:56.083
♪ We\'re gonna send
the blacks back ♪

00:18:56.083 --> 00:18:58.041
♪ La la la la,
la la la la ♪

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♪ We\'re gonna shoot the red... ♪

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(Angry yelling)

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The Front believe,
as Hitler\'s Nazis did,

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that white Europeans are
naturally superior
to other people

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and that the white race
has got to be preserved.

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Britain will be taken
out of the common market

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and new links forged with
white Rhodesia and South Africa.

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(Tense music)

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Part of what RAR was doing

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was trying
to think about racism

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in terms of it
is a white problem

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and the idea that we
were all still living,

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consciously or unconsciously,

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with the legacy of colonialism.

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(Audience applauding)
(Upbeat music)

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♪ That\'s a plenty\'s
got a beat in it ♪

00:19:43.083 --> 00:19:44.750
♪ The rhythm\'s got
a lot of heat in it ♪

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♪ Bet you five,
ten to five ♪

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♪ It\'s gonna get you doing
what it\'s doing to me ♪

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I\'ve got a sort of
knack of talking
to these native wallahs.

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Get on with that puntering,
you prize heathen berk!

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(Audience laughing)

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I wish to make a complaint
against a nig-nog.

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(Audience laughing)

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Moved next door,
that\'s what he\'s done.

00:20:03.834 --> 00:20:05.291
(Audience laughing)

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What do you mean,
is that all?

00:20:06.667 --> 00:20:08.458
(Tense music)

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Extreme racists have
become part of balance,

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an acceptable point of view

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within the spectrum
of political opinions.

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Can you imagine the media
displaying the rhetoric

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of, say,
black revolutionaries?

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I hope to achieve,
through the ballot box,

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by getting people elected,
first of all,

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an immediate halt
to coloured immigration

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and, thereafter,
the phased repatriation

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of all coloured immigrants,
their descendants and dependants

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from Britain to their lands
of ethnic origin.

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INTERVIEWER:
And if they don\'t go?

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They\'re going to go.

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What would happen if they
don\'t want to go back?

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And he said, \"Don\'t you
worry, they\'re going back!\"

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Then we\'re into cattle trains

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and, you know,
we know what that means,

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do you know what I mean?

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Rock Against Racism
was white people

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finally waking up
to the fact

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that, \"Oh my God,
there\'s racism here!\"

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Huh, please, you know,
black people were living it.

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The Front
got their best results

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in Bethnal Green and Bow,

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where they polled 19.2%
of the vote,

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and in Hackney South,
where they took 19%.

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MAN:
The National Front
is a Nazi front!

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GROUP:
Smash the National Front!

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RED:
The focus was then absolutely

00:21:51.250 --> 00:21:52.792
on the proper
organised politics.

00:21:52.792 --> 00:21:55.291
(Upbeat punk music)

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Kate Webb was
the youngest person

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who came to work full-time
in the RAR office.

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We were absolutely overwhelmed.

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We were getting
sackfuls of mail

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and Red and the other
photographers let me
have a desk.

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I used to corral gangs
of people.

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We\'d sit there with letters
strewn all around the floor,

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all of us picking up letters,
reading them out aloud

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and just writing back
as quickly as we could.

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♪ Your kiss so sweet ♪

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♪ Your sweat so sour ♪

00:22:42.333 --> 00:22:46.667
♪ Your kiss so sweet ♪

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♪ Your sweat so sour ♪

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♪ Sometimes I\'m thinking
that I love you ♪

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♪ But I know it\'s only lust ♪

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It was the anti-racist
enthusiasm,

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the commitment to people,
to the horror of possibility

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that we may have a National
Front administration.

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♪ Sweat\'s running
down your neck ♪

00:23:08.583 --> 00:23:11.041
♪ Heated couplings
in the sun ♪

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I remember getting a letter
from a kid in Aberystwyth

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that said,
\"My schoolteachers
are fascists.\"

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Say, Ted in Bognor Regis.

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You know, Ted who was 14
and going to school
in Bognor Regis

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and we would say,
\"Dear, Ted,

00:23:25.542 --> 00:23:27.875
\"there is no RAR group
in Bognor Regis

00:23:27.875 --> 00:23:30.208
\"but you are now
Bognor Regis RAR.\"

00:23:30.208 --> 00:23:32.750
♪ I always knew it would ♪

00:23:33.792 --> 00:23:36.709
♪ You know the change
will do you good ♪

00:23:36.709 --> 00:23:39.875
♪ You know the change
will do you good ♪

00:23:47.291 --> 00:23:51.875
♪ Damaged goods,
ah ah ah ah ♪

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♪ Send them back,
ah ah ah ah ♪

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♪ I can\'t work,
I can\'t achieve ♪

00:23:57.834 --> 00:24:01.542
♪ Send me back,
ah ah ah ah ♪

00:24:01.542 --> 00:24:04.667
♪ Open the till ♪

00:24:04.667 --> 00:24:07.625
♪ Give me the change you
said would do me good ♪

00:24:07.625 --> 00:24:10.250
This was a coup
for \"Temporary Hoarding\"
at that time.

00:24:10.250 --> 00:24:14.208
♪ You said you\'re cheap ♪

00:24:14.208 --> 00:24:15.834
♪ But you\'re too much
Your kiss so sweet ♪

00:24:15.834 --> 00:24:18.583
♪ Your sweat so sour ♪

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KATE:
We\'re working
\"Temporary Hoarding,\"

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we\'re working on the next gig.

00:24:22.458 --> 00:24:25.166
♪ But I know it\'s only lust ♪

00:24:25.166 --> 00:24:28.166
♪ The change will do you good ♪

00:24:28.166 --> 00:24:31.333
♪ I always knew it would ♪

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The Rock Against Racism banner

00:24:32.500 --> 00:24:34.375
that\'s here and here
is rayon ironed-on.

00:24:34.375 --> 00:24:38.917
I mean, that\'s the way,
it was all hands on

00:24:38.917 --> 00:24:41.041
guerrilla activities.

00:24:49.291 --> 00:24:53.792
♪ I\'m kissing you goodbye ♪

00:24:53.792 --> 00:24:56.667
♪ I\'m kissing you goodbye ♪

00:24:56.667 --> 00:24:59.792
♪ I\'m kissing you goodbye ♪

00:24:59.792 --> 00:25:02.875
♪ I\'m kissing you goodbye ♪

00:25:02.875 --> 00:25:06.000
♪ I\'m kissing you goodbye ♪

00:25:06.000 --> 00:25:09.959
We used to go a gig guide

00:25:09.959 --> 00:25:11.417
and it would be instructions
to the RAR group

00:25:11.417 --> 00:25:14.166
who were in Lowestoft or
Leeds or wherever they were.

00:25:14.166 --> 00:25:18.834
If you\'re gonna book a
gig, this is what you do.

00:25:18.834 --> 00:25:20.667
Make sure you control the stage.

00:25:20.667 --> 00:25:22.834
At no point do you let anybody
else get to the microphone.

00:25:22.834 --> 00:25:26.333
♪ We\'re gonna rock it
to the Ratskank now ♪

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We\'re opposed to the idea
of the National Front
and that

00:25:48.875 --> 00:25:52.166
and we want to
sort of stop it

00:25:52.166 --> 00:25:53.875
at the beginning,
at schools and that.

00:25:53.875 --> 00:25:55.667
♪ Gotta fight back
at her repression ♪

00:25:55.667 --> 00:25:57.208
♪ Fight her plans
for our regression ♪

00:25:57.208 --> 00:25:58.834
\"Come and join the discussion
about what we can do

00:25:58.834 --> 00:26:01.500
\"to fight the Nazi
National Front in schools.

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\"We are black,
we are white,
we are dynamite.

00:26:05.834 --> 00:26:07.959
\"School Kids Against the Nazis,
SKAN.\"

00:26:07.959 --> 00:26:11.125
That\'s rather good.

00:26:11.125 --> 00:26:12.834
I went to
a Rock Against Racism gig.

00:26:15.208 --> 00:26:17.625
At the end,
there was
black and white people,

00:26:17.625 --> 00:26:20.083
fists like this, shouting,
\"Black and white, unite!\"

00:26:20.083 --> 00:26:23.333
I got some literature
from a friend

00:26:24.834 --> 00:26:27.417
and I just realised
what the National Front
were up to.

00:26:27.625 --> 00:26:30.375
♪ Swamp her,
better call the rat catcher ♪

00:26:32.500 --> 00:26:35.208
♪ Swamp her with
our Alien Kulture ♪

00:26:35.208 --> 00:26:37.917
♪ Swamp her,
better call the rat catcher ♪

00:26:37.917 --> 00:26:40.667
♪ Swamp her with
our Alien Kulture ♪

00:26:40.667 --> 00:26:43.291
♪ Swamp her,
better call the rat catcher ♪

00:26:43.291 --> 00:26:46.041
♪ Swamp her with
our Alien Kulture ♪

00:26:46.041 --> 00:26:49.291
(Upbeat punk music)

00:26:52.500 --> 00:26:56.542
♪ Warrior,
worry warrior ♪

00:26:56.542 --> 00:27:00.542
♪ Warrior in Woolworths ♪

00:27:00.542 --> 00:27:03.792
♪ Humble he may seem ♪

00:27:03.792 --> 00:27:06.875
♪ Behind his servile innocence ♪

00:27:06.875 --> 00:27:10.166
♪ He plots and he schemes ♪

00:27:10.166 --> 00:27:13.834
♪ He\'s the rebel
on the underground ♪

00:27:13.834 --> 00:27:17.083
♪ She\'s the rebel
of the modern town ♪

00:27:17.083 --> 00:27:20.333
♪ He\'s the rebel
on the underground ♪

00:27:20.333 --> 00:27:23.041
She was one of the first
artists that talked about things

00:27:23.041 --> 00:27:27.417
that people never ever
talked about.

00:27:35.750 --> 00:27:40.542
She had fashioned
something for herself.

00:27:40.542 --> 00:27:45.041
The common way
that black females

00:27:45.041 --> 00:27:47.375
are supposed to present
themselves

00:27:47.375 --> 00:27:49.208
is with plenty of flesh and,
you know,

00:27:49.208 --> 00:27:52.083
some exotic ripe berry
somewhere.

00:28:26.417 --> 00:28:30.959
The school I went to,
right,

00:28:30.959 --> 00:28:32.917
all the kids are supposed
to be factory fodder,

00:28:32.917 --> 00:28:35.875
you know,
that sort of stuff.

00:28:35.875 --> 00:28:37.500
And like the school\'s
sort of built,

00:28:37.500 --> 00:28:39.667
it\'s a really depressing
school and that

00:28:39.667 --> 00:28:41.583
and you go there,
you don\'t learn nothing.

00:28:41.583 --> 00:28:43.667
All you\'re working for is
just to go into the factory

00:28:43.667 --> 00:28:45.875
which is \'round the corner.

00:28:45.875 --> 00:28:48.875
INTERVIEWER:
Are there a lot
of your fans on the dole?

00:28:48.875 --> 00:28:50.625
I mean,
do they feel the same way?

00:28:50.625 --> 00:28:52.750
Well, I mean,
if there was jobs

00:28:53.917 --> 00:28:55.208
then they wouldn\'t be
on the dole

00:28:55.208 --> 00:28:56.625
and maybe we\'d be
singing about

00:28:56.625 --> 00:28:58.333
love and kissing
or something.

00:29:01.625 --> 00:29:05.500
There\'s all kinds
of historical

00:29:05.500 --> 00:29:06.667
references within the layouts.

00:29:06.667 --> 00:29:09.041
The thinking was partly to turn
them into a gang of outlaws.

00:29:09.041 --> 00:29:12.750
You know,
the famous pictures
of the James gang.

00:29:12.750 --> 00:29:14.417
So it\'s partly that,

00:29:14.417 --> 00:29:16.166
that they\'re all in their
coffins and they\'re outlaws.

00:29:16.166 --> 00:29:19.709
But, also,
it\'s a famous reference

00:29:19.709 --> 00:29:21.417
back to the 1871 Paris Commune

00:29:21.417 --> 00:29:24.375
where they lined up
all the Communards
as they killed them.

00:29:28.250 --> 00:29:33.250
SYD:
\"Temporary Hoarding\"
was sold mostly at gigs

00:29:33.250 --> 00:29:35.792
and demonstrations

00:29:35.792 --> 00:29:37.417
and, when we had enough
money to produce a new issue,

00:29:37.417 --> 00:29:39.834
then we\'d produce a new one.

00:29:49.125 --> 00:29:53.458
Ah, me and my beloved.

00:29:53.458 --> 00:29:56.500
(Upbeat steel drum music)

00:29:56.500 --> 00:29:59.166
That is Notting Hill Carnival

00:29:59.166 --> 00:30:01.250
in the year of Heavy Manners,
which must have been 1977.

00:30:04.083 --> 00:30:05.041
(Tense music)

00:30:10.959 --> 00:30:15.834
\"Temporary Hoarding\" tried
to pick up specific issues.

00:30:15.834 --> 00:30:18.458
This is a good one here
about sus laws.

00:30:19.291 --> 00:30:21.583
At that time,
there was a massive amount

00:30:24.083 --> 00:30:25.917
of police picking up
black youth

00:30:25.917 --> 00:30:27.625
and there\'s a great quote here.

00:30:27.625 --> 00:30:29.041
It says, \"Sus, on a date
unknown you did conspire

00:30:29.041 --> 00:30:33.083
\"with people unknown
to rob people unknown.\"

00:30:36.667 --> 00:30:41.291
All it needed was
the police officer\'s word
against yours

00:30:41.291 --> 00:30:44.667
and the magistrate
would send you down.

00:30:44.667 --> 00:30:47.250
It was used, as my friend
Linton Kwesi Johnson says,

00:30:47.250 --> 00:30:51.291
unscrupulously

00:30:51.291 --> 00:30:52.583
against us.

00:31:02.291 --> 00:31:06.834
POLICE OFFICER:
You\'re nicked.

00:31:06.834 --> 00:31:10.333
POLICE OFFICER:
OK, over here.

00:31:10.333 --> 00:31:11.875
No!

00:31:11.875 --> 00:31:13.208
(Traffic rumbling)

00:31:17.291 --> 00:31:21.709
(Police radio chattering)

00:31:28.709 --> 00:31:33.250
You were warned
by your parents.

00:31:33.250 --> 00:31:35.125
\"If you\'re going out,
be in before 10 o\'clock.\"

00:31:35.125 --> 00:31:37.792
If we were going to a club
and someone didn\'t turn up,

00:31:39.500 --> 00:31:43.500
the first thing
we thought of,

00:31:43.500 --> 00:31:45.959
\"Let\'s check out
the local police station.\"

00:31:45.959 --> 00:31:48.458
\'Cause that journey
between the house

00:31:48.458 --> 00:31:49.959
and wherever you\'re going,
the venue,

00:31:49.959 --> 00:31:52.166
could be intercepted
by the police.

00:31:52.166 --> 00:31:55.750
And then the challenge
was to get them

00:31:55.750 --> 00:31:58.208
out of the police station,

00:31:58.208 --> 00:31:59.709
\'cause staying overnight
in the police station

00:31:59.709 --> 00:32:02.166
was also a dangerous affair.

00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:08.625
I was a radiographer
at that time.

00:32:08.625 --> 00:32:11.250
I was stuck
in the back of a car.

00:32:11.250 --> 00:32:13.291
I was taken to the local
department store

00:32:13.291 --> 00:32:16.291
and, to this day,
I always wonder what
would have happened

00:32:16.291 --> 00:32:20.250
if the two white women
who came to look at me

00:32:20.250 --> 00:32:22.417
through the window had said,
\"Yes, that\'s her,\"

00:32:22.417 --> 00:32:25.625
how my life
might have devolved.

00:32:38.709 --> 00:32:43.125
The police came to a club

00:32:43.125 --> 00:32:44.959
where I was having
a sound clash.

00:32:44.959 --> 00:32:48.500
They were coming out of
the toilets, so they say,

00:32:48.500 --> 00:32:51.041
with a prisoner that they
had arrested in the toilets

00:32:51.041 --> 00:32:53.750
and the audience saw fit
to free the prisoner.

00:32:55.834 --> 00:32:58.083
They then accused me of
standing on the stage

00:33:00.709 --> 00:33:05.125
with a microphone, saying,
\"Get the boys in blue.\"

00:33:05.125 --> 00:33:09.417
At the end of six months
trial at the Old Bailey,

00:33:09.417 --> 00:33:13.125
I was sentenced to three years.

00:33:13.125 --> 00:33:16.208
And after six months
in Wormwood Scrubs,

00:33:16.208 --> 00:33:19.125
my appeal comes up and I win

00:33:19.125 --> 00:33:21.750
and I\'m told,
\"Off you go and think
yourself lucky

00:33:21.750 --> 00:33:23.667
\"that you didn\'t have to
spend three years in prison.\"

00:33:23.667 --> 00:33:27.291
INTERVIEWER:
For something you didn\'t do.

00:33:27.291 --> 00:33:28.625
Absolutely.

00:33:28.625 --> 00:33:29.834
(Tense music)

00:33:54.166 --> 00:33:59.291
RED:
Webster, being a clever
bastard, designed a march

00:33:59.291 --> 00:34:03.458
to go right through
an area of immigrants

00:34:03.458 --> 00:34:06.875
and ethnic minorities,
you know, a black area
of London.

00:34:08.875 --> 00:34:10.125
We arrived
quite early that morning.

00:34:13.583 --> 00:34:15.583
(Loud drumming)

00:34:16.500 --> 00:34:20.000
We went,
\"Wow, this is a community

00:34:20.000 --> 00:34:21.709
\"that\'s gonna defend itself.\"

00:34:44.166 --> 00:34:48.792
There was a lot
of messing around

00:34:48.792 --> 00:34:50.500
where people didn\'t really
know who was where or what.

00:34:50.500 --> 00:34:52.000
And there was
this continual thing,

00:34:52.000 --> 00:34:53.875
\"They\'re coming now,
they\'re coming,
everybody get ready!\"

00:34:53.875 --> 00:34:55.834
You know, and then,
\"No, they\'re not.\"

00:34:55.834 --> 00:34:57.250
\"Yes, they\'re coming now!\"

00:34:57.250 --> 00:34:59.250
It was very very frightening.

00:34:59.250 --> 00:35:02.083
(Crowd yelling)

00:35:02.083 --> 00:35:04.250
MARTIN:
The only chant
today is National Front.

00:35:04.250 --> 00:35:07.083
Nothing else.

00:35:07.083 --> 00:35:08.583
Take order from the police.

00:35:08.583 --> 00:35:10.583
No backchat
with the opposition.

00:35:10.583 --> 00:35:13.458
No leaving the column to fight

00:35:13.458 --> 00:35:16.000
and no chanting
except for National Front.

00:35:16.000 --> 00:35:18.333
Have you got that?

00:35:19.500 --> 00:35:20.834
(Crowd yelling)

00:35:20.834 --> 00:35:22.291
MAN:
Go back!

00:35:22.291 --> 00:35:23.375
(Crowd cheering)

00:35:23.375 --> 00:35:26.041
CROWD:
National Front,
National Front, National Front!

00:35:26.750 --> 00:35:31.625
National Front,
National Front, National Front!

00:35:31.792 --> 00:35:35.959
(Tense music)

00:35:35.959 --> 00:35:38.792
(Crowd murmuring)

00:35:46.458 --> 00:35:51.458
RED:
And it was only an hour later
when whack!

00:35:51.458 --> 00:35:54.417
(Crowd yelling)

00:35:55.583 --> 00:35:57.291
(Tense music)

00:36:05.959 --> 00:36:10.291
When the Front came up

00:36:10.291 --> 00:36:11.875
with all the Union Jack
banners, the honour guard,

00:36:11.875 --> 00:36:14.875
suddenly,
there was this amazing onslaught

00:36:14.875 --> 00:36:17.667
and I looked across

00:36:17.667 --> 00:36:19.083
and I saw all these
kids steaming into them.

00:36:19.083 --> 00:36:23.542
It was these Cypriot Youth
who all just went straight in.

00:36:23.542 --> 00:36:27.250
\"Fascists off our streets!\"

00:36:27.250 --> 00:36:29.500
(Crowd yelling)

00:36:29.500 --> 00:36:32.917
CROWD:
Nazi scum, Nazi scum,
Nazi scum, Nazi scum!

00:36:33.291 --> 00:36:38.125
Shocked them going through,
took at them.

00:36:38.125 --> 00:36:40.417
We dealt the Nazis
the biggest defeat

00:36:40.417 --> 00:36:42.709
they\'ve suffered so far!

00:36:42.709 --> 00:36:44.500
(Crowd cheering)

00:36:44.500 --> 00:36:47.208
CROWD:
The workers united
will never be defeated!

00:36:47.208 --> 00:36:49.542
The workers united
will never be defeated!

00:36:49.542 --> 00:36:52.291
REPORTER:
Unknown to the demonstrators,

00:36:52.291 --> 00:36:54.291
the National Front
had been diverted

00:36:54.291 --> 00:36:56.500
before reaching the clock
tower area of Lewisham.

00:36:56.500 --> 00:37:00.583
They were routed down
Cressingham Road

00:37:00.583 --> 00:37:03.000
and into a small car park

00:37:03.000 --> 00:37:05.166
where they were allowed
to hold a rally.

00:37:05.166 --> 00:37:08.375
MARTIN:
Before we start the meeting,

00:37:08.375 --> 00:37:11.166
we have a debt of gratitude
to pay to the police today.

00:37:11.166 --> 00:37:15.166
(Crowd cheering)

00:37:16.000 --> 00:37:18.083
As we usually do.

00:37:20.250 --> 00:37:21.959
I want you to show
your appreciation

00:37:21.959 --> 00:37:24.375
for the unfortunate police
who\'ve had this problem today

00:37:24.375 --> 00:37:28.750
by giving them three rousing
cheers for the police.

00:37:28.750 --> 00:37:31.875
Hip-hip!

00:37:31.875 --> 00:37:33.041
CROWD:
Hooray!

00:37:33.041 --> 00:37:34.458
MARTIN: Hip-hip!
CROWD: Hooray!

00:37:34.458 --> 00:37:36.542
MARTIN: Hip-hip!
CROWD: Hooray!

00:37:36.542 --> 00:37:39.083
(Crowd applauding)

00:37:42.208 --> 00:37:46.250
MAN:
Hello, hello, hello?

00:37:46.709 --> 00:37:48.750
(Crowd yelling)

00:37:52.458 --> 00:37:53.709
(Screaming)

00:37:57.208 --> 00:37:59.083
MAN:
Let him go, let him go,
this is our borough!

00:38:02.583 --> 00:38:06.667
(Yelling)

00:38:15.458 --> 00:38:19.792
Some people are saying,

00:38:19.792 --> 00:38:21.333
\"No, I don\'t think the police
would do that.\"

00:38:21.333 --> 00:38:24.375
But they did,
they just came in

00:38:24.375 --> 00:38:26.750
and that was what took me
by surprise.

00:38:26.750 --> 00:38:28.375
I didn\'t think they was
gonna start poking at me eyes

00:38:28.375 --> 00:38:31.250
and kicking me
in the crotch

00:38:31.250 --> 00:38:32.875
and things like that.
(Sirens wailing)

00:38:32.875 --> 00:38:34.166
But they did, you know,
they did.

00:38:34.166 --> 00:38:36.792
(Tense music)

00:38:36.792 --> 00:38:39.500
POLICE RADIO:
Central six, all the trouble

00:38:41.500 --> 00:38:43.750
is coming from
the northbound carriageway

00:38:43.750 --> 00:38:45.542
where there\'s no policemen.

00:38:45.542 --> 00:38:46.834
RED:
That was the first time ever,

00:38:46.834 --> 00:38:48.750
since the Second World War,

00:38:48.750 --> 00:38:50.542
that the British police
broke out the riot shields.

00:38:50.542 --> 00:38:52.959
POLICE RADIO:
Should they arrive,

00:38:52.959 --> 00:38:54.041
do you require assistance?

00:38:54.041 --> 00:38:56.458
RED:
Webster always used to say,

00:38:56.458 --> 00:38:58.333
\"You won\'t believe the amount
of senior police officers

00:38:58.333 --> 00:39:01.542
\"who support
the National Front.\"

00:39:01.542 --> 00:39:03.333
Well, you did see it
at Lewisham.

00:39:03.333 --> 00:39:05.583
(Crowd yelling)

00:39:05.875 --> 00:39:08.458
(Tense music)

00:39:26.875 --> 00:39:31.834
Well, I feel that
National Front isn\'t a problem

00:39:31.834 --> 00:39:35.083
that you can sort of forget
about and it\'ll go away.

00:39:35.083 --> 00:39:37.875
Because it is a problem and,

00:39:37.875 --> 00:39:39.291
if you do leave it,
it\'ll grow and grow.

00:39:39.291 --> 00:39:40.667
It\'s like a cancer.

00:39:41.917 --> 00:39:46.583
There was a massive,
massive explosion

00:39:46.583 --> 00:39:49.333
of solidarity from black
militants like Darcus Howe

00:39:49.333 --> 00:39:54.458
to Jewish businessmen saying,
\"I don\'t like your politics

00:39:54.458 --> 00:39:58.125
\"but we\'ll do anything
to help fight the NF.\"

00:40:08.709 --> 00:40:13.250
I was surprised
it got covered.

00:40:13.250 --> 00:40:15.083
We weren\'t superheroes,
(laughs)

00:40:15.083 --> 00:40:16.542
we were just ordinary people.

00:40:16.542 --> 00:40:18.583
We were ordinary
anti-racist citizens.

00:40:19.041 --> 00:40:21.000
(Upbeat music)

00:40:30.667 --> 00:40:35.417
Everybody from Aberystwyth
to Plymouth,

00:40:35.417 --> 00:40:36.750
youth were reading the \"NME\"

00:40:36.750 --> 00:40:38.208
and the \"Melody Maker\"
and all these papers

00:40:38.208 --> 00:40:40.417
and, when they became
really clear

00:40:40.417 --> 00:40:41.917
of the fascist nature
of the National Front

00:40:41.917 --> 00:40:43.500
and they put
their full support behind it,

00:40:43.500 --> 00:40:45.750
the level of RAR support
went up 5000%.

00:40:49.542 --> 00:40:53.542
♪ One, two, three, four ♪

00:40:53.542 --> 00:40:55.166
♪ First generation,
illegal immigrants ♪

00:40:55.166 --> 00:40:57.542
♪ Second generation,
juvenile delinquents ♪

00:40:57.542 --> 00:41:00.291
♪ Torn between two cultures ♪

00:41:00.291 --> 00:41:02.834
KATE:
Alien Kulture were part

00:41:02.834 --> 00:41:04.750
of our RAR committee
in London.

00:41:04.750 --> 00:41:06.333
(Singing in foreign language)

00:41:06.333 --> 00:41:07.917
♪ We\'re taught how to
pray five times a day ♪

00:41:07.917 --> 00:41:11.000
♪ But that\'s not what
we\'re about ♪

00:41:11.000 --> 00:41:13.083
♪ We just want to live out
our lives ♪

00:41:13.083 --> 00:41:15.750
It\'s about
sending a message out to people

00:41:15.750 --> 00:41:18.625
that we\'re not that different.

00:41:18.625 --> 00:41:20.709
This is a problem
we have as Asians.

00:41:20.709 --> 00:41:22.959
Live in this culture but
come from this culture

00:41:22.959 --> 00:41:25.417
so we have a culture outside

00:41:25.417 --> 00:41:27.834
which is punk gigs
and politics.

00:41:27.834 --> 00:41:30.166
We have a culture at home,
which is Bollywood films

00:41:30.166 --> 00:41:33.208
and maybe watching the only
Asian programme at the time.

00:41:33.208 --> 00:41:36.417
♪ All we need
is understanding ♪

00:41:36.417 --> 00:41:38.125
♪ To be happy and content ♪

00:41:38.125 --> 00:41:40.542
♪ First generation ♪

00:41:40.542 --> 00:41:41.834
The thing to do
is organise more,

00:41:41.834 --> 00:41:44.041
get involved in outside
organisation

00:41:44.041 --> 00:41:46.000
with white people,
with black people.

00:41:46.000 --> 00:41:47.709
The only way we can do
it is together.

00:41:47.709 --> 00:41:49.417
♪ Caught in
a culture crossover ♪

00:41:49.583 --> 00:41:54.667
PERVEZ:
We have to get our message
out there somehow.

00:41:54.667 --> 00:41:57.667
Asian parents are concerned
about a detrimental effect

00:41:57.667 --> 00:42:00.417
that they feel white culture
will have on their children.

00:42:00.417 --> 00:42:02.792
A lot of Asian youth go
to discos and play in bands

00:42:02.792 --> 00:42:05.917
and they\'re not actually
rejecting their Eastern culture

00:42:06.500 --> 00:42:11.000
but their parents think they are

00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.041
just because they are doing
what they are doing, you know?

00:42:13.041 --> 00:42:15.750
♪ Asian youth,
oh, where have you been ♪

00:42:15.750 --> 00:42:17.917
♪ Asian youth,
you wanna be see ♪

00:42:17.917 --> 00:42:20.417
♪ Asian youth,
you dunno know who to turn to ♪

00:42:20.417 --> 00:42:23.083
♪ Oh Asian youth ♪

00:42:23.083 --> 00:42:25.750
♪ Asian youth,
oh, Asian youth ♪

00:42:25.750 --> 00:42:27.083
I\'d grown up listening
to Beach Boys,

00:42:27.083 --> 00:42:30.750
Bruce Springsteen,
Neil Young, Bob Dylan.

00:42:30.750 --> 00:42:34.166
You\'d rather hear The Jam,
you\'d rather hear The Clash,

00:42:34.166 --> 00:42:36.709
Tom Robinson Band,
the Sex Pistols,

00:42:36.709 --> 00:42:39.709
because, in a sense,
they belonged to you.

00:42:39.709 --> 00:42:43.583
Tom Robinson really appealed,
you know?

00:42:43.583 --> 00:42:46.125
Songs like \"Winter of \'79,\"
they were of the time.

00:42:46.125 --> 00:42:50.458
(Upbeat rock music)

00:42:55.792 --> 00:43:00.500
I went to see
the Tom Robinson Band,

00:43:00.500 --> 00:43:02.208
who were playing at the ICA,

00:43:02.208 --> 00:43:04.291
and I became, immediately,
a really big fan.

00:43:04.291 --> 00:43:08.417
♪ It was us poor bastards
took the chop ♪

00:43:08.417 --> 00:43:11.792
♪ When the tubes gone up
and the buses stopped ♪

00:43:11.792 --> 00:43:15.625
♪ The top folks
still come out on top ♪

00:43:15.625 --> 00:43:19.125
♪ The government
never resigned ♪

00:43:19.125 --> 00:43:22.709
♪ The Carib Club
was petrol bombed ♪

00:43:22.709 --> 00:43:26.375
♪ The National Front was
getting awful strong ♪

00:43:26.375 --> 00:43:30.125
♪ The done in
Dave and Dagenham Ron ♪

00:43:30.125 --> 00:43:33.583
♪ In the winter of \'79 ♪

00:43:33.583 --> 00:43:37.291
♪ When all the gay geezers
got put inside ♪

00:43:37.291 --> 00:43:40.667
I think I wrote to Tom
a fan letter and he wrote back.

00:43:40.667 --> 00:43:43.750
He introduced me,
through his letters,

00:43:45.458 --> 00:43:47.750
to a load of people
and I got to know them.

00:43:47.750 --> 00:43:50.500
There\'s a photograph here
of Tom.

00:43:50.500 --> 00:43:53.250
This is me, this is Karen,
who was a secretary,

00:43:53.250 --> 00:43:56.333
and the two Jewish schoolgirls
from Camden

00:43:56.333 --> 00:43:58.667
who went by the name
of Scruf with one F

00:43:58.667 --> 00:44:00.667
and Scruff with two Fs.

00:44:00.667 --> 00:44:02.834
And we formed a kind of band,

00:44:02.834 --> 00:44:04.417
embarrassingly called
the Robinson\'s Rats,

00:44:04.417 --> 00:44:07.083
and we followed them up
and down the country.

00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:10.667
♪ When all the gay
geezers was put inside ♪

00:44:13.917 --> 00:44:17.375
♪ And coloured kids
was getting crucified ♪

00:44:17.375 --> 00:44:20.834
♪ A few fought back
and a few folks died ♪

00:44:20.834 --> 00:44:24.208
♪ In the winter of \'79. ♪

00:44:24.208 --> 00:44:26.083
RED:
At a gig, you\'d be
dealing with anti-racism

00:44:26.083 --> 00:44:28.166
and here you\'re
taking it further.

00:44:28.166 --> 00:44:29.792
So here we\'re looking at
the war in Northern Ireland.

00:44:29.792 --> 00:44:32.750
NEWSREADER:
British troops,
once hailed as peacemakers,

00:44:32.750 --> 00:44:35.125
are now the object of hatred

00:44:35.125 --> 00:44:36.667
of the Catholic minority,
accused of allowing

00:44:36.667 --> 00:44:39.125
the Protestant government
to oppress at will.

00:44:39.125 --> 00:44:41.583
We were being held
in the grip of fear,

00:44:41.583 --> 00:44:44.291
fear in our communities
of the gunman.

00:44:44.291 --> 00:44:47.291
(Guns firing)
(Crowd yelling)

00:44:58.000 --> 00:45:02.959
This was about a rape by
a soldier of a young woman

00:45:02.959 --> 00:45:07.917
who told her story in
\"Temporary Hoardings.\"

00:45:23.000 --> 00:45:27.458
With \"Temporary Hoardings,\"

00:45:27.458 --> 00:45:28.750
we wanted to introduce
the politics

00:45:28.750 --> 00:45:31.083
of the wider movement
continuously into it.

00:45:31.083 --> 00:45:33.959
So it also had a purpose
as educator.

00:45:33.959 --> 00:45:38.208
(Tense music)

00:45:51.458 --> 00:45:56.125
RED:
We were able to test out ideas.

00:45:56.125 --> 00:45:58.375
We were able
to move to broader areas.

00:46:12.375 --> 00:46:17.250
In those days,
there weren\'t that many people

00:46:17.250 --> 00:46:19.625
who were making the connection

00:46:19.625 --> 00:46:21.166
between oppression of lesbians
and gay men

00:46:21.166 --> 00:46:23.959
and racism and fascism.

00:46:24.750 --> 00:46:26.500
The first article I wrote
for \"Temporary Hoarding\"

00:46:29.709 --> 00:46:32.709
was a piece called
\"No More Normals.\"

00:46:32.709 --> 00:46:34.792
I wanted to point out
the way heterosexual people

00:46:37.375 --> 00:46:41.333
and behaviour and relationships
were regarded as the norm

00:46:41.333 --> 00:46:44.959
and lesbians and gay men

00:46:44.959 --> 00:46:46.291
were totally invisible
in the media.

00:46:56.083 --> 00:47:01.083
Obviously, an important
part of \"Temporary Hoarding\"

00:47:01.083 --> 00:47:03.667
was interviewing bands.

00:47:03.667 --> 00:47:05.125
So there\'s an interview
here with Adam and the Ants.

00:47:07.375 --> 00:47:10.000
\"Wouldn\'t you like
to rip him to shreds?\"

00:47:10.000 --> 00:47:12.917
Which is done
by Lucy Toothpaste
and I did the design.

00:47:14.417 --> 00:47:16.375
He was determined to say
that he was anti-fascist

00:47:19.291 --> 00:47:23.542
but he still insisted
on his right

00:47:23.542 --> 00:47:25.792
to use imagery which
came from Nazi Germany.

00:47:36.125 --> 00:47:40.834
What we used to do
in our interviews

00:47:40.834 --> 00:47:43.458
was really challenge
and continue the debate.

00:47:43.458 --> 00:47:46.834
It was a way to sort of put
both sides of these arguments

00:47:46.834 --> 00:47:49.667
and hear what people
had to say.

00:48:02.583 --> 00:48:07.542
Our world was a world
without any social media.

00:48:07.542 --> 00:48:10.625
Forget social media,
there was no mobile phones.

00:48:10.625 --> 00:48:12.792
You had to put four pennies

00:48:12.792 --> 00:48:14.041
in a bloody box
and press a button.

00:48:14.041 --> 00:48:16.875
Our world was
the underground.

00:48:16.875 --> 00:48:18.417
The underground press
was street posters,

00:48:18.417 --> 00:48:21.709
London was covered in them.

00:48:21.709 --> 00:48:24.333
The Clash were one
of the most amazing bands

00:48:24.333 --> 00:48:26.333
so we\'ve taken the lyrics

00:48:26.333 --> 00:48:28.375
and printed the lyrics
of \"White Riot,\"

00:48:28.375 --> 00:48:30.834
\"I want a riot of my own\"

00:48:30.834 --> 00:48:32.917
and this could get stuck up
as a complete individual poster

00:48:32.917 --> 00:48:36.500
and that really was
the whole spirit

00:48:36.500 --> 00:48:38.792
of \"Temporary Hoarding.\"

00:48:38.792 --> 00:48:40.166
(Tense music)

00:48:54.083 --> 00:48:58.959
The right wing hijacked
\"White Riot\" as a song

00:48:58.959 --> 00:49:02.000
\'cause it was white riot,

00:49:02.000 --> 00:49:03.959
they didn\'t listen
to the lyrics.

00:49:03.959 --> 00:49:06.542
\"White Riot\"
is about the fact

00:49:06.542 --> 00:49:08.500
that we wished
the white people would riot

00:49:08.500 --> 00:49:10.959
like the black people do
because we\'re not happy either.

00:49:12.834 --> 00:49:14.500
You can get all
the Rolls Royces, all the dough,

00:49:17.709 --> 00:49:21.083
all the country houses,
all the servants you want.

00:49:21.083 --> 00:49:25.458
I just think there\'s nothing
at the end of that road.

00:49:25.458 --> 00:49:28.458
No human life or nothing

00:49:28.458 --> 00:49:30.667
and that\'s why I just
don\'t want to go that way.

00:49:30.667 --> 00:49:33.250
Now that\'s why I think that
it\'s all of us or none.

00:49:33.250 --> 00:49:36.792
MAN:
The National Front
is a Nazi front!

00:49:36.792 --> 00:49:39.083
CROWD:
Smash the National Front!

00:49:40.208 --> 00:49:42.166
Smash the National Front!

00:49:44.625 --> 00:49:46.583
The National Front
is a Nazi front!

00:49:46.583 --> 00:49:48.917
Smash the National Front!

00:49:48.917 --> 00:49:50.875
MAN:
You\'re nothing but cruel scum

00:49:50.875 --> 00:49:53.750
and you\'re not fit
to be on this Earth!

00:49:53.750 --> 00:49:56.458
If you met somebody who
was just a confused racist,

00:49:56.458 --> 00:49:59.875
not a full on Nazi, we could win
them away sometimes.

00:49:59.875 --> 00:50:04.166
(Crowd cheering)

00:50:04.166 --> 00:50:08.125
But full core Nazis, no,
I never met any of them,

00:50:08.125 --> 00:50:10.709
I wouldn\'t have sat and debated,
there was none of that.

00:50:10.709 --> 00:50:15.041
NEWSREADER:
The National Front celebrating

00:50:15.041 --> 00:50:17.500
its 10th anniversary by
launching a youth section.

00:50:27.792 --> 00:50:32.500
When we do start sending
the blacks back,

00:50:32.500 --> 00:50:34.000
it\'s not gonna hurt them

00:50:34.000 --> 00:50:35.667
and they\'ll be given
financial aid and assistance.

00:50:35.667 --> 00:50:38.792
And we think that a lot of
them will go back willingly

00:50:38.792 --> 00:50:41.333
without sort of kicking up
a fuss and violence and that.

00:50:41.333 --> 00:50:44.208
You\'d get the odd one,
perhaps.

00:50:47.291 --> 00:50:51.959
RED:
There were attacks to RAR groups

00:50:51.959 --> 00:50:54.000
in different areas
of the country.

00:50:54.000 --> 00:50:55.542
(Yelling)

00:50:55.542 --> 00:50:57.000
People in Manchester
describing people

00:50:57.000 --> 00:50:58.834
climbing through the windows
trying to smash the gigs up.

00:50:58.834 --> 00:51:01.667
(Crowd cheering)
Oi, shut up, shut up!

00:51:01.667 --> 00:51:05.083
Oi, you\'re not in
that back garden, cunts!

00:51:05.083 --> 00:51:09.792
They had to instruct people,
when they left the gigs,

00:51:09.792 --> 00:51:11.959
to take all their badges off

00:51:11.959 --> 00:51:13.208
because Nazis would float around

00:51:13.208 --> 00:51:15.500
where they knew the gig
was and jump people.

00:51:15.500 --> 00:51:17.709
RED:
A lot of fans were British
Movement, National Front.

00:51:19.542 --> 00:51:24.083
They were real white suburban,
white flight,

00:51:24.083 --> 00:51:27.750
they were very hostile
to black kids.

00:51:27.750 --> 00:51:30.917
(Tense music)

00:51:39.291 --> 00:51:43.959
Look at fucking Bristol,
200 niggers.

00:51:43.959 --> 00:51:46.667
You should have shoved
200 skinheads up there,

00:51:46.667 --> 00:51:48.333
we\'d kick the fuck out of
them, the whole building.

00:51:48.333 --> 00:51:49.959
They\'d only fucking run away,
the bunch of cunts.

00:51:49.959 --> 00:51:51.875
They, the NF
and the British Movement,

00:51:53.959 --> 00:51:55.792
they go to the gigs
to cause trouble.

00:51:57.834 --> 00:52:01.709
In the front, there was
a couple of skinheads

00:52:01.709 --> 00:52:03.792
banging this guy\'s head
against a scaffolding

00:52:03.792 --> 00:52:05.709
and every time
he came up, you know,

00:52:05.709 --> 00:52:06.917
there was blood,
more and more.

00:52:06.917 --> 00:52:08.542
It\'s just a bad image,
really.

00:52:08.542 --> 00:52:09.834
That\'s what gets the image.

00:52:09.834 --> 00:52:11.583
It\'s just the skinheads,
innit?

00:52:11.583 --> 00:52:14.166
RED:
Everyone thought
all skinheads were Nazis,

00:52:14.166 --> 00:52:16.291
which, of course,
was utter rubbish, they weren\'t.

00:52:16.291 --> 00:52:18.709
But a lot of skinheads were.
(Laughs)

00:52:18.709 --> 00:52:21.250
You didn\'t bother to stop
and debate the point.

00:52:21.417 --> 00:52:23.792
When we played London,
we knew what we were
going to get.

00:52:27.625 --> 00:52:30.625
Wednesbury is an area
I\'d never heard of.

00:52:30.625 --> 00:52:33.291
We went walking down,
turned the corner
where the hall was,

00:52:33.291 --> 00:52:37.625
and there were 30 skinheads
standing outside there.

00:52:37.625 --> 00:52:40.583
We just looked at each other

00:52:41.625 --> 00:52:42.875
and thought,
\"Oh god, not again.\"

00:52:43.041 --> 00:52:45.041
Our job

00:52:47.041 --> 00:52:48.291
was to peel away
the Union Jack

00:52:48.291 --> 00:52:52.375
to reveal the swastika.

00:52:52.375 --> 00:52:54.291
(Tense music)

00:52:58.375 --> 00:53:03.417
Sham 69 had a really confusing
relationship with fans.

00:53:07.792 --> 00:53:08.709
(Crowd cheering)

00:53:11.959 --> 00:53:16.333
His fan group, quite a lot
of whom were working class kids

00:53:16.333 --> 00:53:19.542
involved in
the National Front
or on the fringes of it.

00:53:20.583 --> 00:53:23.166
He had a strong respect for
who he thought these kids were

00:53:25.750 --> 00:53:28.125
and how they were left out of
most decisions in the world

00:53:28.125 --> 00:53:30.125
and he didn\'t want
to be somebody

00:53:30.125 --> 00:53:31.625
who said,
\"You should think like this.\"

00:53:35.792 --> 00:53:40.667
They\'re all moving down
the same conveyor belt.

00:53:40.667 --> 00:53:43.041
They\'re all being subjected
to \"You do this, son.

00:53:43.041 --> 00:53:46.750
\"You come from there, son,
so you have to do that.

00:53:46.750 --> 00:53:50.583
\"If you come from a tower
block in the East End,

00:53:50.583 --> 00:53:53.500
\"you are subject to either
working at the docks

00:53:53.500 --> 00:53:56.083
\"or so and so and so.

00:53:56.083 --> 00:53:57.375
\"No, you mustn\'t go out now.

00:53:57.375 --> 00:53:59.333
\"You mustn\'t leave London
and be something else

00:53:59.333 --> 00:54:01.709
\"because that\'s wrong,
you\'re not born to do that.\"

00:54:03.333 --> 00:54:05.125
(Tense music)

00:54:08.500 --> 00:54:10.208
RED:
I went down to see
Jimmy and his mum and dad

00:54:13.542 --> 00:54:16.166
\'cause I wanted to ask them

00:54:16.166 --> 00:54:17.542
if they were prepared
to support RAR.

00:54:17.542 --> 00:54:19.917
Why not do
something really clear

00:54:21.625 --> 00:54:23.583
and do a gig
with a black band?

00:54:26.458 --> 00:54:31.458
We put on this gig with
Sham 69 and Misty In Roots.

00:54:43.417 --> 00:54:48.250
Misty In Roots and Sham
were all backstage.

00:54:50.000 --> 00:54:52.375
I was doing a bit
of compering

00:54:54.583 --> 00:54:56.083
and backstaging and a bit
of everything.

00:54:56.083 --> 00:54:58.250
Misty started
playing dominoes

00:54:59.917 --> 00:55:01.792
and the tension in the room

00:55:03.000 --> 00:55:05.542
as they started to whack down
the dominoes on the table

00:55:05.542 --> 00:55:09.875
and it was as if they were
saying, \"Come on then!\"

00:55:09.875 --> 00:55:12.000
You know what I mean?

00:55:12.000 --> 00:55:13.375
\"We\'re here and
we\'re not going anywhere.\"

00:55:13.375 --> 00:55:15.417
(\"Also Sprach Zarathustra,
Op. 30\")

00:55:15.417 --> 00:55:18.291
(Crowd cheering)

00:55:21.250 --> 00:55:25.250
♪ There\'s gonna be
a borstal breakout ♪

00:55:32.333 --> 00:55:37.458
♪ I\'m sitting in this cell
for something I didn\'t do ♪

00:55:37.458 --> 00:55:42.250
♪ And all I can think of is,
baby, I think of you ♪

00:55:43.500 --> 00:55:48.500
RED:
The British Movement
got in, dozens of them.

00:55:48.500 --> 00:55:52.125
What have we done,
you know?

00:55:52.125 --> 00:55:53.500
I started to really doubt
the whole idea.

00:55:53.500 --> 00:55:55.583
I was a real nervous wreck
that night.

00:55:55.583 --> 00:55:58.375
♪ There\'s gonna be
a borstal breakout ♪

00:55:58.375 --> 00:55:59.709
RED:
People were freaking out.

00:55:59.709 --> 00:56:01.458
If they get on the stage,
retreat, defend the PA system.

00:56:01.458 --> 00:56:05.000
If they get to the PA system,
turn it off.

00:56:05.000 --> 00:56:09.333
♪ And now I\'m getting
out, coming back for you ♪

00:56:10.083 --> 00:56:14.917
♪ There\'s gonna be a borstal
breakout ♪

00:56:14.917 --> 00:56:17.333
♪ There\'s gonna be a borstal
breakout ♪

00:56:17.333 --> 00:56:19.750
♪ There\'s gonna be a borstal
breakout ♪

00:56:19.750 --> 00:56:22.375
♪ There\'s gonna be a borstal
breakout ♪

00:56:22.375 --> 00:56:24.750
(Glass smashing)

00:56:24.750 --> 00:56:25.959
(Yelling)

00:56:25.959 --> 00:56:28.333
He\'s the fucking trouble!

00:56:35.667 --> 00:56:39.834
Do you see that?

00:56:39.834 --> 00:56:41.417
(Microphone thudding)

00:56:40.417 --> 00:56:43.208
(Angry shouting)

00:56:43.208 --> 00:56:45.917
MAN:
Get on with it!

00:56:46.333 --> 00:56:48.000
Yeah, it happens,
I don\'t know what to do now.

00:56:51.250 --> 00:56:53.375
What can I do?

00:56:53.375 --> 00:56:55.250
CROWD:
Skinheads, skinheads,
skinheads, skinheads!

00:56:55.250 --> 00:56:59.875
I preach peace,
I go on there, I do me best.

00:56:59.875 --> 00:57:03.959
And that\'s all I can do,
is do me best.

00:57:03.959 --> 00:57:06.625
(Rails clanging)

00:57:09.583 --> 00:57:14.000
Across the country,
there must have been

00:57:14.000 --> 00:57:16.792
several thousand people
from minority communities

00:57:16.792 --> 00:57:20.458
who just got shit and piss
through their letterboxes

00:57:20.458 --> 00:57:24.041
with regularity.

00:57:24.041 --> 00:57:25.834
People couldn\'t go
one to one to school,

00:57:25.834 --> 00:57:27.291
they had to go
in groups of 10.

00:57:27.291 --> 00:57:29.792
I mean,
listen to the stories

00:57:29.792 --> 00:57:31.166
from Bengali communities
in East London.

00:57:31.792 --> 00:57:33.333
I would say
they are shit scared

00:57:35.417 --> 00:57:36.917
to walk around the streets.

00:57:36.917 --> 00:57:38.542
It\'s not gonna stop them
from staying in this country.

00:57:41.542 --> 00:57:46.417
You\'d been spat on,
people had thrown bottles
at you,

00:57:46.417 --> 00:57:49.250
you regularly been called Paki,
so it was quite normal.

00:57:50.542 --> 00:57:53.166
REPORTER:
This Asian shopkeeper,

00:57:55.166 --> 00:57:56.750
who spent three years in
a Japanese prisoner of war camp

00:57:56.750 --> 00:57:59.583
after fighting for
Britain in the last war,

00:57:59.583 --> 00:58:01.583
describes the attack.

00:58:01.583 --> 00:58:02.959
All these skinheads
throw these stones

00:58:02.959 --> 00:58:05.667
and break my all windows

00:58:05.667 --> 00:58:07.792
and, all of a sudden,
one is coming here

00:58:07.792 --> 00:58:09.417
and break my teeth in here.

00:58:09.417 --> 00:58:11.583
(Tense music)

00:58:11.583 --> 00:58:14.917
Commander Marshall,
why is it that the police

00:58:14.917 --> 00:58:18.000
have apparently not been
successful in protecting

00:58:18.000 --> 00:58:21.208
some Asians and, in fact,
also some English people

00:58:21.208 --> 00:58:24.000
from what is clearly
racial violence?

00:58:24.000 --> 00:58:27.542
It\'s speculatory to suggest
that all attacks

00:58:27.542 --> 00:58:30.792
on Asians
or any other minority

00:58:30.792 --> 00:58:32.375
are motivated
by racial motives.

00:58:32.375 --> 00:58:34.375
I\'m not suggesting
that all of them are,

00:58:34.375 --> 00:58:35.750
I\'m just saying that
it looks as though

00:58:35.750 --> 00:58:37.083
we\'ve got a new phenomenon
of people,

00:58:37.083 --> 00:58:39.709
and they may be organised
or they may not,

00:58:39.709 --> 00:58:41.291
but actually going out

00:58:41.291 --> 00:58:42.792
and hunting for people
of particular groups.

00:58:42.792 --> 00:58:45.417
We have no evidence
that they are organised.

00:58:44.417 --> 00:58:48.041
(Tense music)

00:58:49.750 --> 00:58:50.709
MAN:
In 1977, there was seven,

00:58:54.333 --> 00:58:56.709
in and around Brick Lane,
racist murders.

00:58:58.375 --> 00:58:59.834
KATE:
This is when Altab Ali

00:59:02.917 --> 00:59:05.083
was murdered
in the East End.

00:59:13.625 --> 00:59:17.792
(Tense music)

00:59:38.333 --> 00:59:42.834
We got firebombed at one point

00:59:42.834 --> 00:59:44.333
and we did,
we moved offices.

00:59:44.333 --> 00:59:46.625
We had to get into
all that stuff

00:59:48.417 --> 00:59:50.333
where you have to
block up your letterbox,

00:59:50.333 --> 00:59:52.166
where you wipe your feet,

00:59:52.166 --> 00:59:53.750
you put sand down
in case petrol comes through.

01:00:01.041 --> 01:00:05.583
I, quite often,
was terrified.

01:00:05.583 --> 01:00:08.000
Just after our daughter
was born,

01:00:08.000 --> 01:00:09.625
we got a bullet
in the post.

01:00:11.250 --> 01:00:15.792
I just hid it away
straight away.

01:00:15.792 --> 01:00:17.834
People said, oh,
go to the police.

01:00:17.834 --> 01:00:19.208
Are you fucking joking,
you know? (laughs)

01:00:19.208 --> 01:00:22.834
No, because we knew,
like Webster said,

01:00:22.834 --> 01:00:25.583
the police weren\'t gonna
be helping us.

01:00:25.583 --> 01:00:27.166
Every demonstration we went on,
they hindered us.

01:00:27.166 --> 01:00:30.083
It was our people
got arrested,

01:00:30.083 --> 01:00:31.750
it was our people got kettled,
it wasn\'t the Front.

01:00:33.458 --> 01:00:34.458
This was a gang
of street thugs.

01:00:38.000 --> 01:00:39.667
They were out
to terrify you.

01:00:41.250 --> 01:00:45.875
CROWD:
Black or white,
unite and fight!

01:00:45.875 --> 01:00:47.709
Smash the National Front!

01:00:47.709 --> 01:00:49.375
MAN:
I want to hear it louder!

01:00:49.375 --> 01:00:50.917
CROWD:
Black or white,
unite, that\'s right!

01:00:50.917 --> 01:00:52.625
Smash the National Front!

01:00:52.625 --> 01:00:53.917
When RAR and the ANL
came together,

01:00:53.917 --> 01:00:57.166
that\'s how vital
the campaign was.

01:00:57.166 --> 01:00:59.625
It was life and death
for many, many people.

01:00:59.625 --> 01:01:02.500
CROWD:
Unite, that\'s right,
smash the National Front!

01:01:02.500 --> 01:01:05.875
REPORTER:
I asked Red Saunders,
one of RAR\'s founders,

01:01:05.875 --> 01:01:09.083
what he saw
as the difference

01:01:09.083 --> 01:01:10.667
between RAR
and the Anti Nazi League.

01:01:10.667 --> 01:01:13.417
It\'s a difficult question,
Janet.

01:01:15.083 --> 01:01:17.000
I mean,
RAR and the ANL

01:01:17.917 --> 01:01:19.208
are completely separate
organisations

01:01:19.208 --> 01:01:20.917
but they work
in unity together

01:01:20.917 --> 01:01:23.000
on the cultural fight
against racism and fascism.

01:01:24.125 --> 01:01:26.709
We were united
in the fight with them

01:01:28.834 --> 01:01:30.291
against the National Front.

01:01:30.291 --> 01:01:31.750
Whereas we were more
specifically cultural

01:01:31.750 --> 01:01:34.166
and into militant entertainment,

01:01:34.166 --> 01:01:35.750
they were into
the politic election fight.

01:01:35.750 --> 01:01:39.041
(Upbeat steel drum music)

01:01:39.041 --> 01:01:43.625
All of us had gone regularly
to the Notting Hill Carnival

01:01:43.625 --> 01:01:47.667
and we wanted to kind of
pay homage to that

01:01:47.667 --> 01:01:49.834
and what a brilliant,
vibrant thing that
was every year.

01:01:52.291 --> 01:01:53.417
MAN:
I remember the Anti Nazi League,

01:01:56.959 --> 01:01:58.583
who had said that they
would help us with funding,

01:01:58.583 --> 01:02:00.458
wanted us to do it off
the back of a lorry.

01:02:00.458 --> 01:02:02.583
We had completely
different ideas.

01:02:04.667 --> 01:02:08.458
RED:
We\'re gonna march

01:02:08.458 --> 01:02:09.792
from Trafalgar Square
to Vicky Park.

01:02:09.792 --> 01:02:13.166
The NF were getting 23%
of the vote there

01:02:13.166 --> 01:02:16.750
so we went, \"Well,
that\'s where we gotta go,

01:02:16.750 --> 01:02:19.375
\"the heart of their territory.\"

01:02:22.250 --> 01:02:27.125
ROGER:
I think Red
wasn\'t completely sure

01:02:27.125 --> 01:02:28.875
that we could pull it off,

01:02:28.875 --> 01:02:30.291
which is very unusual for Red.

01:02:30.291 --> 01:02:31.917
RED:
I remember when we first
started talking,

01:02:34.458 --> 01:02:36.417
I thought, bloody hell,
you know, that\'s huge.

01:02:36.417 --> 01:02:38.792
I don\'t know that we can
be cut in with that.

01:02:38.792 --> 01:02:41.125
And then once it went,
it just rolled, you know.

01:02:41.125 --> 01:02:44.166
(Upbeat rock music)

01:02:45.417 --> 01:02:48.166
Get permission from the council,
vital stuff.

01:02:50.250 --> 01:02:53.166
Get a stage,
build it.

01:02:53.166 --> 01:02:55.792
Then you get the back line,
then you get the generators.

01:02:55.792 --> 01:02:58.875
Now, at the same time,
get the bands.

01:02:58.875 --> 01:03:01.208
Who\'s gonna be the bands?

01:03:01.208 --> 01:03:02.583
We gotta have
rebel reggae music.

01:03:03.959 --> 01:03:06.041
We finished up
with Steel Pulse

01:03:06.041 --> 01:03:07.500
\'cause \"Handsworth Revolution\"
was out.

01:03:07.834 --> 01:03:09.583
At the same time,
myself and Roger

01:03:12.458 --> 01:03:14.750
were going,
\"It\'s gotta be Tom Robinson.\"

01:03:14.750 --> 01:03:17.250
Then the debate started
about The Clash.

01:03:19.333 --> 01:03:21.625
Gotta have The Clash,
absolutely,

01:03:21.625 --> 01:03:22.834
the great energy punk band.

01:03:23.291 --> 01:03:24.667
ROGER:
We had a big row
over the running order.

01:03:28.208 --> 01:03:30.750
KATE:
Roger and I argued that,
actually,

01:03:30.750 --> 01:03:33.333
we should have Tom on last.

01:03:33.333 --> 01:03:34.709
Not because
we necessarily thought

01:03:34.709 --> 01:03:35.959
he was a better musician
or more exciting

01:03:35.959 --> 01:03:38.875
but because it was clear that
Tom was the kind of person

01:03:38.875 --> 01:03:41.333
who, at the end of the gig,
would bring people together.

01:03:41.625 --> 01:03:44.625
So the decision was, OK,
well, you go and tell them.

01:03:46.625 --> 01:03:49.667
You go and tell The Clash that
they\'re not gonna go on last

01:03:49.667 --> 01:03:52.709
and get them to agree then.

01:03:56.458 --> 01:04:00.542
All right?

01:04:00.542 --> 01:04:01.667
(Upbeat punk music)

01:04:10.750 --> 01:04:15.709
♪ Back in the garage with
my bullshit detector ♪

01:04:18.583 --> 01:04:21.000
ROGER:
Bernie Rhodes, their manager,

01:04:23.291 --> 01:04:25.166
was going on and on
and on about, you know,

01:04:25.166 --> 01:04:27.000
it\'s all Woodstock
and we was all hippies

01:04:27.000 --> 01:04:29.458
and they were
the real fighters.

01:04:29.458 --> 01:04:31.834
♪ Making offers for my life ♪

01:04:31.834 --> 01:04:35.542
KATE:
They played endless tricks on us

01:04:35.542 --> 01:04:37.375
and turned the lights
on and off

01:04:37.375 --> 01:04:38.709
and were trying
to feel us out

01:04:38.709 --> 01:04:40.125
and test us
who the hell we were.

01:04:40.125 --> 01:04:43.709
It was very much a question
of us swallowing humble pie

01:04:43.709 --> 01:04:47.291
to support Tom Robinson,

01:04:47.291 --> 01:04:48.959
who\'d been involved
since the beginning

01:04:48.959 --> 01:04:50.834
so, rightly,
he was headlining.

01:04:50.834 --> 01:04:54.125
But it went against
the grain to support someone.

01:04:54.125 --> 01:04:58.750
But the cause was more important
than our personal egos.

01:04:58.750 --> 01:05:02.458
♪ I don\'t want
to go to where ♪

01:05:02.458 --> 01:05:05.625
♪ Where the rich are going ♪

01:05:05.625 --> 01:05:09.125
♪ I don\'t want to know about ♪

01:05:09.125 --> 01:05:12.500
♪ What the rich are doing ♪

01:05:12.500 --> 01:05:16.041
♪ They think
they\'re so clever ♪

01:05:16.041 --> 01:05:19.375
♪ They think
they\'re so right ♪

01:05:19.375 --> 01:05:22.792
♪ But truth is only... ♪

01:05:22.792 --> 01:05:26.834
RED:
Once they\'d come on board,
it just exploded.

01:05:26.834 --> 01:05:30.041
(Upbeat music)

01:05:40.291 --> 01:05:44.583
There were threats.

01:05:44.583 --> 01:05:46.000
In the run up to the
carnival, The Clash went

01:05:46.000 --> 01:05:48.917
and demonstrated outside
the NF headquarters

01:05:48.917 --> 01:05:51.792
with Steel Pulse.

01:05:51.792 --> 01:05:53.041
They\'re much too cool
to hold placards,

01:05:55.709 --> 01:05:58.125
is what I think when I look
at these photos. (Laughs)

01:06:05.208 --> 01:06:09.709
We built the stage,
I think,

01:06:09.709 --> 01:06:11.083
on that week before,
on the Wednesday.

01:06:11.083 --> 01:06:13.417
I\'ve never been
so nervous in my life.

01:06:13.417 --> 01:06:16.333
We had a six-month-old baby
at home.

01:06:16.333 --> 01:06:18.583
I was climbing the walls.

01:06:18.583 --> 01:06:21.166
And the Anti Nazi League
slept on the stage

01:06:21.166 --> 01:06:24.208
so it was protected 24 hours.

01:06:24.208 --> 01:06:26.500
(Traffic whooshing)

01:06:26.500 --> 01:06:29.625
It had rained almost
the whole of the week before.

01:06:31.166 --> 01:06:34.458
The park was like a swamp.

01:06:36.333 --> 01:06:40.667
KATE:
We were very anxious.

01:06:40.667 --> 01:06:42.166
We didn\'t have mobile phones.

01:06:42.166 --> 01:06:43.625
We had no connection
to Trafalgar Square.

01:06:43.625 --> 01:06:46.333
We had no idea
how many people were coming.

01:06:50.166 --> 01:06:55.208
RED:
I got there like seven
o\'clock in the morning

01:06:55.208 --> 01:06:56.792
and \"Oh my God,\"
you know?

01:06:56.792 --> 01:06:58.458
Nothing\'s happening and
the weather wasn\'t very good.

01:06:58.458 --> 01:07:02.041
The police were ridiculing us,

01:07:02.041 --> 01:07:03.417
saying,
\"Nobody\'s gonna come to this,

01:07:03.417 --> 01:07:06.375
\"no one\'s gonna march,
they\'re only going
for the music.\"

01:07:06.375 --> 01:07:10.333
(Tense music)

01:07:10.333 --> 01:07:12.125
And I thought,
I\'ll go up to Soho

01:07:12.125 --> 01:07:13.959
and get myself a bacon butty
and a cup of tea.

01:07:14.250 --> 01:07:16.458
I came back and just the first
big coaches were arriving.

01:07:20.291 --> 01:07:25.083
This coach pulled up
and the doors opened

01:07:25.083 --> 01:07:27.291
and all this haze of smoke
and stuff coming

01:07:27.291 --> 01:07:30.792
and all these punks
tumbled out.

01:07:30.792 --> 01:07:32.917
I thought,
\'ello, \'ello.

01:07:32.917 --> 01:07:35.083
(Crowd cheering)

01:07:35.875 --> 01:07:38.000
(Upbeat steel drum music)

01:07:59.041 --> 01:08:03.709
I came down from Glasgow
in a coach.

01:08:03.709 --> 01:08:05.125
-We travelled overnight.
-I don\'t like the Nazis.

01:08:05.125 --> 01:08:07.417
Just down here to show that
we\'re against them up there too.

01:08:07.417 --> 01:08:11.041
They just want to bully people
into their point of view

01:08:11.041 --> 01:08:13.583
and I think people ought to
stand up for their opinions.

01:08:18.291 --> 01:08:22.834
The rise
of the National Front

01:08:22.834 --> 01:08:24.583
is probably the worst thing
that\'s happened in this country

01:08:24.583 --> 01:08:26.417
for many years,
politically anyway,

01:08:26.417 --> 01:08:28.125
and we came up here
from Hereford

01:08:28.125 --> 01:08:30.208
simply to show that there
are people from our place

01:08:30.208 --> 01:08:33.291
who care to try
and stop this.

01:08:38.041 --> 01:08:42.542
The message of this carnival,

01:08:42.542 --> 01:08:44.333
not only to the loonies
of the National Front

01:08:44.333 --> 01:08:47.417
but to all bigots everywhere,
is hands off our people!

01:08:47.417 --> 01:08:51.625
(Crowd cheering)

01:08:51.625 --> 01:08:55.250
Black, white,
together tonight and forever!

01:08:55.250 --> 01:08:59.709
(Crowd cheering)
(Upbeat steel drum music)

01:09:05.000 --> 01:09:09.542
I saw Tom and he said,
\"I\'ve got the whistles!\"

01:09:09.542 --> 01:09:12.667
We said, \"Great!\" and we started
throwing out the whistles

01:09:12.667 --> 01:09:15.834
and anyone who was
at the carnival will tell you,

01:09:15.834 --> 01:09:17.875
the cacophony of noise
was unbelievable.

01:09:24.291 --> 01:09:29.375
The march headed off with
all these bands on platforms

01:09:29.375 --> 01:09:33.125
and those wonderful effigies

01:09:33.125 --> 01:09:35.583
of Martin Webster,
Tyndall and Adolf Hitler

01:09:35.583 --> 01:09:38.333
that were made by the
\"Spitting Image\" team.

01:09:40.709 --> 01:09:44.709
(Whistling)

01:09:52.667 --> 01:09:56.834
(Crowd chanting)

01:10:05.458 --> 01:10:10.166
When we came down
Bethnal Green Row

01:10:10.166 --> 01:10:12.000
and all the NF were outside
the Blade Bone pub.

01:10:12.000 --> 01:10:15.000
\"Sieg heil, sieg heil!\"

01:10:15.000 --> 01:10:17.709
And then,
down the road,

01:10:17.709 --> 01:10:19.583
(Upbeat steel drum music)
came thousands and thousands

01:10:19.583 --> 01:10:21.834
of multiracial kids,
punks, everybody.

01:10:22.583 --> 01:10:25.000
An hour later,
the march was still coming

01:10:27.375 --> 01:10:29.375
and they were kinda,
\"Erm, seig,

01:10:29.375 --> 01:10:31.792
\"ah fuck,
let\'s go and have a drink.\"

01:10:31.792 --> 01:10:33.458
(Laughs) They just
fucking gave up.

01:10:33.458 --> 01:10:36.792
This is a multiracial borough

01:10:36.792 --> 01:10:38.083
and we want it
to stay that way.

01:10:38.083 --> 01:10:39.750
Every human being
has got the right

01:10:39.750 --> 01:10:41.875
to live and
to have employment

01:10:41.875 --> 01:10:43.875
and shouldn\'t be treated
as less than a human being.

01:10:43.875 --> 01:10:46.750
Because we feel really strongly
about racial prejudice.

01:10:46.750 --> 01:10:51.667
I think it\'s a slur
and a disgrace to this country.

01:10:51.667 --> 01:10:55.291
(Upbeat steel drum music)
(Crowd cheering)

01:11:30.333 --> 01:11:34.792
(Helicopter blades whirring)

01:11:41.792 --> 01:11:46.208
12:00, we was gonna start

01:11:46.208 --> 01:11:48.792
and I know it\'s a bit biblical,
but the sun broke out.

01:11:48.792 --> 01:11:52.750
(Birds twittering)

01:11:52.750 --> 01:11:56.125
I came onto the stage.

01:11:56.125 --> 01:11:57.792
There was a bloke
with a dog,

01:11:57.792 --> 01:11:59.333
there was two kids on
bikes and that was it.

01:11:59.333 --> 01:12:02.875
And there was Victoria Park,
no one in it at all.

01:12:04.959 --> 01:12:06.500
So X-Ray Spex
were gonna open.

01:12:09.500 --> 01:12:11.375
KATE:
Coming into Victoria Park
and hearing that.

01:12:13.208 --> 01:12:16.333
\"Some people say little girls

01:12:16.333 --> 01:12:19.583
\"should be seen and not
heard but I think--\"

01:12:19.583 --> 01:12:23.500
Oh bondage, up yours!

01:12:23.500 --> 01:12:26.208
One, two, three, four!

01:12:26.208 --> 01:12:27.583
(Upbeat punk music)

01:12:30.792 --> 01:12:35.250
♪ Bind me, tie me,
chain me to the wall ♪

01:12:35.250 --> 01:12:38.417
♪ I wanna be a slave
for you all ♪

01:12:38.417 --> 01:12:41.458
♪ Oh bondage,
up yours ♪

01:12:41.458 --> 01:12:44.291
♪ Oh bondage,
no more ♪

01:12:44.291 --> 01:12:47.458
♪ Oh bondage,
up yours. ♪

01:12:47.458 --> 01:12:50.625
The security was
a complete shamble.

01:12:50.625 --> 01:12:53.709
They could defend
the stage against the NF

01:12:53.709 --> 01:12:56.000
but how do you
defend the stage

01:12:56.000 --> 01:12:57.542
against 80,000 pogoing
18 year olds? (laughs)

01:12:57.542 --> 01:13:02.333
The fence went down,
people collapsed,

01:13:02.333 --> 01:13:04.166
people were being
brought out.

01:13:04.166 --> 01:13:05.625
♪ Oh bondage,
no more ♪

01:13:05.625 --> 01:13:08.000
♪ Oh bondage,
up yours. ♪

01:13:08.000 --> 01:13:09.542
And this guy,
he said, \"Can I help?\"

01:13:09.542 --> 01:13:11.333
And I turned \'round,
it\'s this 70-year-old

01:13:11.333 --> 01:13:13.291
St. John\'s Ambulance guy
with his cap and his uniform.

01:13:13.667 --> 01:13:17.083
The unsung hero of the day.

01:13:20.291 --> 01:13:24.709
I told the council that
we expected 500 people,

01:13:24.709 --> 01:13:28.542
\'cause we didn\'t want
to get involved

01:13:28.542 --> 01:13:30.166
in bringing in Portaloos.

01:13:30.166 --> 01:13:31.583
The park keeper came

01:13:32.375 --> 01:13:33.875
and we introduced him
to Steel Pulse\'s crew

01:13:34.041 --> 01:13:37.500
and the last time
I saw the park keeper,

01:13:38.834 --> 01:13:40.125
there was a big cloud
of ganja smoke.

01:13:40.125 --> 01:13:43.792
So that was the council
dealt with.

01:13:44.458 --> 01:13:45.709
(Upbeat rock music)

01:13:50.583 --> 01:13:51.959
♪ Consternation in Mayfair ♪

01:13:55.083 --> 01:13:58.125
♪ Rioting in Notting Hill Gate ♪

01:13:58.125 --> 01:14:01.333
♪ Fascists marching
on the High Street ♪

01:14:01.333 --> 01:14:04.542
♪ Carving up
the welfare state. ♪

01:14:04.542 --> 01:14:07.542
Being there
and seeing the numbers

01:14:07.542 --> 01:14:09.583
coming in through the gates

01:14:09.583 --> 01:14:10.834
hour after hour after hour,

01:14:10.834 --> 01:14:12.834
the numbers just kept coming.

01:14:12.834 --> 01:14:14.750
We had no idea how many people
were going to come

01:14:14.750 --> 01:14:17.625
and the PA was desperately
unsuitable for that gig,

01:14:17.625 --> 01:14:20.959
the sound was awful and yet
the thing was just being there

01:14:20.959 --> 01:14:24.458
was the important thing
about that.

01:14:24.458 --> 01:14:26.959
♪ Up against the wall ♪

01:14:26.959 --> 01:14:29.750
♪ Up against the wall ♪

01:14:31.917 --> 01:14:35.041
♪ Up against the wall. ♪

01:14:36.667 --> 01:14:39.709
(Crowd cheering)

01:14:43.792 --> 01:14:47.667
(Upbeat reggae music)

01:14:47.667 --> 01:14:49.250
Everyone said to me,

01:14:49.250 --> 01:14:50.500
\"Oh, Red, you should do
the compering.\"

01:14:50.500 --> 01:14:52.542
Oh god, you know,
I was really anxious about it.

01:14:52.542 --> 01:14:55.625
I used to play this character

01:14:55.625 --> 01:14:56.917
called Mr. Oligarchy
in the theatre

01:14:56.917 --> 01:14:58.709
who controlled
all the workers, you know.

01:14:59.000 --> 01:15:00.917
I wear my
Mr. Oligarchy\'s cape

01:15:03.583 --> 01:15:06.709
and I ran on stage
and I screamed out,

01:15:07.583 --> 01:15:10.750
\"This ain\'t no Woodstock!

01:15:12.000 --> 01:15:14.583
\"This is the carnival against
the fucking Nazis!\"

01:15:14.583 --> 01:15:18.333
And there was a massive roar
from the crowd

01:15:18.333 --> 01:15:22.125
and it sustained me
throughout the day.

01:15:25.333 --> 01:15:29.709
♪ Rock against racism ♪

01:15:29.709 --> 01:15:32.917
♪ Rock against fascism ♪

01:15:32.917 --> 01:15:36.083
♪ Rock against Nazism ♪

01:15:36.083 --> 01:15:39.917
♪ It was a tough decision,
smash it. ♪

01:15:41.125 --> 01:15:44.500
We go out
and there\'s 80,000 people

01:15:45.834 --> 01:15:49.000
and that audience knew
who we were

01:15:49.000 --> 01:15:51.375
and we weren\'t being booed off,
we were being accepted.

01:15:51.375 --> 01:15:54.417
In fact,
they were singing along.

01:15:54.417 --> 01:15:56.458
♪ Jah Jah, Jah Pickney,
show them ♪

01:15:56.458 --> 01:15:59.291
And we got applauded for
wearing Ku Klux Klan clothes

01:15:59.291 --> 01:16:03.417
to a white British audience

01:16:03.417 --> 01:16:05.500
which was simultaneously
humbling and hilarious.

01:16:05.500 --> 01:16:08.917
♪ Jah Pickney,
let me wipe them out. ♪

01:16:08.917 --> 01:16:12.291
To know that we made
a big difference

01:16:12.291 --> 01:16:14.250
and to see that there was
a lot of people

01:16:14.250 --> 01:16:16.250
that was against
the negativity of racism,

01:16:16.250 --> 01:16:18.667
you know,

01:16:19.250 --> 01:16:20.709
it\'s still a milestone
in what we\'ve achieved.

01:16:20.709 --> 01:16:24.000
♪ Rock against Nazism,
me say smash it ♪

01:16:24.000 --> 01:16:27.834
♪ I\'ve come
to the conclusion that ♪

01:16:27.834 --> 01:16:31.709
♪ We\'re gonna hunt,
yeah yeah yeah ♪

01:16:31.709 --> 01:16:35.000
♪ The National Front ♪

01:16:35.166 --> 01:16:38.291
We came away
from that thinking

01:16:39.750 --> 01:16:42.000
of all the other horrible
things which are happening,

01:16:42.000 --> 01:16:44.083
this is a mass
audience saying,

01:16:44.083 --> 01:16:45.750
look, you\'re OK,
we support you.

01:16:45.750 --> 01:16:47.959
♪ Apartheid, for that
we gonna whoop their hides. ♪

01:16:47.959 --> 01:16:52.792
RED:
The best thing of all
was the jam at the end.

01:16:52.792 --> 01:16:55.250
I do remember the jam.

01:16:55.250 --> 01:16:56.500
I do remember them
all coming on

01:16:56.500 --> 01:16:58.166
and Jimmy Pursey coming on
as well and joining them.

01:16:58.166 --> 01:17:01.125
Jimmy Pursey could bring
a group of people

01:17:01.125 --> 01:17:03.834
into the carnival that we wanted
to try and reach.

01:17:03.834 --> 01:17:07.250
There are all kinds of
dangers involved in that

01:17:07.250 --> 01:17:09.333
because you\'re
bringing people

01:17:09.333 --> 01:17:10.542
who may be involved
in fascism

01:17:10.542 --> 01:17:12.542
or may be a threat
to other people.

01:17:12.542 --> 01:17:14.458
(Musicians chattering)
(Guitar playing)

01:17:14.458 --> 01:17:16.542
We thought
it would be great

01:17:16.542 --> 01:17:17.834
if Jimmy could
get on stage with us

01:17:17.834 --> 01:17:20.041
to nail his colours
to the mast as well.

01:17:20.041 --> 01:17:22.792
To say to the Sham 69 fans,
I\'m not a racist.

01:17:22.792 --> 01:17:26.667
(Musicians chattering)

01:17:26.667 --> 01:17:30.166
We had no idea how many people
were out the front.

01:17:30.166 --> 01:17:33.625
And my vivid memory of that day
is walking up,

01:17:33.625 --> 01:17:36.667
\'cause it was
a very high stage.

01:17:36.667 --> 01:17:38.625
Walked up the stage and saw
a hundred thousand people

01:17:38.625 --> 01:17:42.542
and it was like
(exhales).

01:17:42.542 --> 01:17:44.458
(Crowd cheering)

01:17:51.166 --> 01:17:55.333
Got any room?

01:17:55.333 --> 01:17:56.709
He\'s having a piss!

01:17:59.375 --> 01:18:00.375
The boys are gonna do
one more number

01:18:04.083 --> 01:18:05.500
and I\'m gonna do it with them,
all right?

01:18:05.500 --> 01:18:07.208
(Crowd cheering)

01:18:10.750 --> 01:18:14.917
♪ White riot ♪

01:18:14.917 --> 01:18:16.792
(Crowd cheering)

01:18:16.792 --> 01:18:18.208
(\"White Riot\")

01:18:22.500 --> 01:18:27.083
♪ White riot,
I want to riot ♪

01:18:27.083 --> 01:18:29.375
♪ White riot of our own ♪

01:18:29.375 --> 01:18:31.792
♪ White riot,
I want to riot ♪

01:18:31.792 --> 01:18:33.917
♪ White riot,
a riot of our own ♪

01:18:33.917 --> 01:18:36.375
♪ White riot,
I want to riot ♪

01:18:36.375 --> 01:18:38.625
♪ White riot,
a riot of our own ♪

01:18:38.625 --> 01:18:41.000
♪ White riot,
I want to riot ♪

01:18:41.000 --> 01:18:43.208
♪ White riot,
a riot of our own ♪

01:18:43.208 --> 01:18:45.792
♪ Black men gotta
lotta problem ♪

01:18:45.792 --> 01:18:47.959
♪ They don\'t mind
throwing a brick ♪

01:18:47.959 --> 01:18:50.375
♪ White people
go to school ♪

01:18:50.375 --> 01:18:52.709
♪ Where they teach you
how to be thick ♪

01:18:52.709 --> 01:18:55.208
♪ And everybody\'s doing ♪

01:18:55.208 --> 01:18:57.458
♪ Just what they\'re told to ♪

01:18:57.458 --> 01:18:59.709
♪ And nobody wants ♪

01:18:59.709 --> 01:19:02.083
♪ To go to jail ♪

01:19:02.083 --> 01:19:04.709
♪ White riot,
I want to riot ♪

01:19:04.709 --> 01:19:07.000
♪ White riot,
a riot of our own ♪

01:19:07.000 --> 01:19:09.417
♪ White riot,
I want to riot ♪

01:19:09.417 --> 01:19:11.834
♪ White riot,
a riot of our own ♪

01:19:11.834 --> 01:19:14.291
♪ All the power
in the hands ♪

01:19:14.291 --> 01:19:16.208
♪ Of people rich enough
to buy it ♪

01:19:16.208 --> 01:19:18.667
♪ While we walk the street ♪

01:19:18.667 --> 01:19:20.959
♪ Too chicken to even try it ♪

01:19:20.959 --> 01:19:23.500
♪ Everybody\'s doing ♪

01:19:23.500 --> 01:19:25.542
♪ Just what they\'re told to ♪

01:19:25.542 --> 01:19:28.166
♪ Nobody wanna ♪

01:19:28.166 --> 01:19:30.458
♪ Go to jail ♪

01:19:37.375 --> 01:19:41.959
♪ White riot,
I want to riot ♪

01:19:41.959 --> 01:19:44.250
♪ White riot,
a riot of our own ♪

01:19:44.250 --> 01:19:46.583
♪ White riot,
I want to riot ♪

01:19:46.583 --> 01:19:48.875
♪ White riot,
a riot of our own ♪

01:19:53.041 --> 01:19:54.166
♪ People just wanna ♪

01:19:57.417 --> 01:19:59.333
♪ Sell records ♪

01:19:59.333 --> 01:20:00.583
♪ White riot,
I want to riot ♪

01:20:00.583 --> 01:20:02.542
♪ White riot,
a riot of our own. ♪

01:20:02.542 --> 01:20:05.458
(Crowd cheering)

01:20:08.375 --> 01:20:12.333
HOST:
Bring it, please,
for The Clash!

01:20:35.166 --> 01:20:39.500
RED:
In this society,

01:20:39.500 --> 01:20:40.917
we\'re made to feel powerless
and useless

01:20:40.917 --> 01:20:43.125
and that the great
and the good

01:20:43.125 --> 01:20:44.375
should do our thinking
for us.

01:20:44.375 --> 01:20:46.875
And one of the wonderful
things that we did in RAR

01:20:46.875 --> 01:20:48.834
was to say, no,
just ordinary people,

01:20:48.834 --> 01:20:50.625
we can do things,
we can change the world.

01:20:53.041 --> 01:20:56.875
(Atmospheric music)